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Water protection for forearm prosthetic systems – protects against splashing water, running water, and brief submersion. VINCENTaqua - waterproof neoprene sleeve Splash-water protection for the prosthetic socket for forearm fittings: Protects against splash-water, running water and temporary submersion*. The sleeve is made of neoprene with a textile surface and is individually custom-made. Available in black or with printed wave design in blue, green or violet. *When used properly for a max. of 1 hour in max. 1 m deep water. Flyer VINCENTaqua VINCENTaqua we love perfection

All available grip options for the bionic children's prosthetic hand at a glance. Versatile, practical grip options for everyday use. Grasps VINCENTyoung3+

1998 - Fluidhand 1 This first soft hand consists of thin foil layers, which have been joined together to form more complex drives in a sandwich construction. Five fingers, built up from 6 foil layers each, functionally welded in pairs, with the middle two foils forming the skeletal structure filled with epoxy resin. The outer two foil layers each form a fluidic muscle. For this purpose, two thin films were welded together in such a manner that chambers were formed in a row and connected to each other. When this structure is inflated with a gas or liquid, it contracts by about 20 % of its length, similar to the natural muscle, and the finger curls up like a bow. After a practical semester and his diploma thesis at the Karlsruhe Research Center (now KIT), Stefan Schulz graduated with a degree in electrical engineering and device systems technology from the University of Rostock and took up a position as a research assistant at the Research Center. Already as a student at the University of Rostock, Schulz worked on the development of alternative miniature drives and patented a process for the production of planar fluid drives on a foil basis. At the Research Center, he continued developing this technology, particularly targeting applications in the field of fluidic robotics, so-called soft robotics in the environment of medical technology research topics. The aim of the work was to develop new drives for instruments used in minimally invasive surgery. Schulz's first applications for the new technology were flexible fluid actuators, miniature catheters for diagnostics, endoscope guidance systems for minimally invasive surgery and diagnostic colonoscopy systems. Fluidhand 1 was created as a “by-product” during the development of a camera guidance system for laparoscopy. The same artificial muscles that enable the movement of a laparoscope camera also work in the Fluidhand 1. In this process, two layers of film are welded together in a diamond-like pattern to form a chamber. When a pressure is applied to this chamber, the flexurally limp but stretch-resistant foil layers form circular arcs, resulting in a shortening of the previously flat structure. The artificial muscles formed in this way work as agonist and antagonist in the Fluidhand 1 and enable the artificial finger and thumb to be bent and stretched and stiffened. A single finger can describe a 180 degree arc, but the force of the artificial muscles is very low due to the material and not suitable for holding objects heavier than approx. 100 g. Up

The history of Vincent Systems: From its founding in 2009 to product innovations and international expansion – high-tech in prosthetics. History of the Fluidhand and the VINCENTevolution 1998 Fluidhand 1 thin foil soft robot hand with 5DOF, 5iDOF This first soft hand consists of thin foil layers, which have been joined together to form more complex drives in a sandwich construction. Five fingers, built up from 6 foil layers each, functionally welded in pairs, with the middle two foils forming the skeletal structure filled with epoxy resin. The outer two foil layers each form a fluidic muscle. For this purpose, two thin films were welded together in such a manner that chambers were formed in a row and connected to each other. When this structure is inflated with a gas or liquid, it contracts by about 20% of its length, similar to the natural muscle, and the finger curls up like a bow. Read more 1999 Fluidhand 2 silicon tube soft sobot hand with 16DOF, 11iDOF The new planar technology for manufacturing fluidic drives and kinematics was therefore ideally suited for actively moving miniature catheters and endoscopes. However, the forces achievable with planar film drives, which operate at a working pressure of 0.5-1 bar, were too low for the construction of an artificial hand. To generate higher grasping forces, a correspondingly higher working pressure had to act in the fluidic drives. For Fluidhand 2, “artificial muscles” based on thin silicone hoses were therefore used, which were sheathed with a flexurally flexible, stretch-resistant fabric made of polyamide. Read more 2000 Fluidhand 3 rubber bulg soft hand prosthesis with 10DOF, 1iDOF With the third generation of the Fluidhand, Schulz transferred the technology of flexible fluid actuators to a hand prosthesis. To achieve higher grasping forces, the drives were modified for grasping even heavy objects. The unfolded silicone tubes reinforced with fabric were replaced by miniature folded bellows, which in turn were encased in fabric and attached to aluminum joints in the folds by nylon threads to keep their shape. Three drive elements in each finger, with the two distal bellows coupled together, and two drives in the thumb allow 14 joint axes to move in this hand, equivalent to 14 DOF at 10 iDOF. The fluid actuators were driven by means of miniature hydraulics. The control system, consisting of pump, valve, electronics, sensors and tank, was connected to the prosthesis via a hose approximately 1 m long. The hydraulic unit was the size of a portable telephone and was worn on the belt. Read more 2001 Fluidhand 4 rubber bulg soft hand prosthesis with 10DOF, 6iDOF The Fluidhand 4 has 10 flexible bellows drives, each of which, when pressurized, angles an aluminum joint by 90 degrees. Stretching is achieved by suction of the drive medium and by additional elastic bands. Each long finger has two drives that are fluidically coupled to each other and each leads to a common control valve in the metacarpus. The thumb has two individually movable drives, each of which is actuated by a separate valve. The drive medium is water. This hand prosthesis operates hydraulically for the first time. A miniature pump draws the fluid from an elastic reservoir in the forearm and pumps it at up to 6 bar via the valve bank into the bellows drive chambers. The pump and valves are controlled by a microprocessor in the hand, and the prosthesis wearer gives the control commands via myoelectric sensors. Read more 2002 Fluidhand 5 rubber bulg soft handprosthesis with 8DOF, 5iDOF The Fluidhand 5 was designed with the aim of integrating all system components of miniature hydraulics into the metacarpals in order to make the hand compatible with established socket systems. The prosthesis can be connected to all standard prosthetic sockets via a quicksnap wrist. Both the myoelectric sensors and the energy storage of the socket are used. The pump, fluid tank, valve bank and controller are located in and on the metacarpus. With the reduction in tank size, the number of fluidic drive was reduced to 8. The ring finger and little finger are flexed over one drive each. In the weight-optimized frame in sandwich construction, the elastic finger abduction was integrated. Five valves control the 8 drives of the hand, with the ring, little and middle fingers being hydraulically connected to each other. Read more 2003 Fluidhand 6 rubber bulg soft handprosthesis with 4DOF, 3iDOF The Fluidhand 6 is a particularly compact version of the hydraulic hand prosthesis, reduced to the essentials. The index, middle and ring fingers are each moved in the base joint via a flexible bellows drive, the little finger is mechanically coupled to the ring finger, and the middle finger is hydraulically coupled to the ring finger. The thumb is actuated in the basic joint. In this way, the thumb and index finger can be moved separately, while the other fingers move together. The 4 drives are controlled by a 3 valve bank, the miniature pump sucks distilled water from a pressure storage tank to pump it into the drive chambers. The weight of the hand is about 350 g. The aluminum fingers were covered with a PU foam. In the basic joints, all long fingers have an elastically mounted abduction. Weiter lesen 2004 Fluidhand 7 rubber bulg soft handprosthesis with 8DOF, 8iDOF The Fluidhand 7 is designed as an experimental hand. It is used to develop new control methods and to test a new tank system that is capable of storing energy. The hand therefore has one valve for each of the 8 drives. A type of spring accumulator was developed for the hydraulic tank, which allows the hand to be closed quickly and silently without the hydraulic pump operating. Due to the large number of new and experimental components, the metacarpus has turned out to be significantly larger than the previous model, but at this stage of development, the anatomical shape and size of the hand is not a priority. Read more 2005 Fluidhand 8 rubber bulg soft handprosthesis with 8DOF, 4iDOF The Fluidhand 8 has 8 drives that are controlled via 5 valves. The bellows in the index finger and middle finger are each hydraulically coupled with each other, and the drives of the ring and little fingers are also connected with each other via a common valve. The special feature of this further development is that the metacarpus has been replaced by a hermetically sealed pressure body. Inside the metacarpus is an elastic tank in the form of a diaphragm, in which both the drive medium (vegetable oil) and the control electronics, valves and pump are integrated; all system components "float" permanently in the drive medium. Between the pressure body shell and the diaphragm there is again a two-phase gas with a constant pressure of 2 bar. Read more 2006 Fluidhand 9 rubber bulg soft handprosthesis with 5DOF, 5iDOF The Fluidhand 9 has 5 drives of different sizes. The base joints of the index finger and middle finger are equipped with stronger drives. The elastic fluid tank is located in the wrist. When the fingers are emptied, they are stretched and the fluid is pumped from the finger joints into the elastic tank in the wrist, bending the wrist and opening the hand further. The pump is noise-isolated and free-swinging in a CFRP tank; valves and controls are located in the metacarpus, which is completely covered with CFRP. The thumb with a drive in the base pivots between flat hand and opposition position to the three-point grip. Read more Current products

Close Mein Weg zur Selbstständigkeit: Wie Isabelle ihre bionische Hand zur zweiten Natur macht Von Isabelle Hi, ich bin Isabelle, trage eine myoelektrische Oberarmprothese und bin seit 2020 stolze Besitzerin meiner VINCENTevolution . Ich muss schon sagen, als ich das allererste Mal alleine mit der Hand im Alltag dastand, war ich dezent überfordert. Die Steuerung der Hand erfordert Umdenken: Kein intuitives Zugreifen mehr, sondern aktive Anspannung meiner Bizeps- und Trizeps-Muskelsignale. Das ist für den Ungeübten anstrengend, sowohl für die Muskeln als auch fürs Gehirn. 16 verschiedene Griffe können mit diesen zwei Muskelsignalen anhand eines Griffschemas angesteuert werden. Da stand ich also und versuchte mir auszumalen, welcher Griff am ehesten dazu geeignet war, diese Teebeutel-Verpackung zu öffnen. Anschließend strengte ich krampfhaft meine grauen Zellen an, um mir das Griffschema in Erinnerung zu rufen, damit ich weiß, in welcher Kombination ich meine Muskeln anspannen muss, um in diesen Griff zu gelangen. Und dann erst konnte ich die Aktion starten. Anfangs musste ich in Kauf nehmen, dass Alltagsaktivitäten deutlich mehr Zeit in Anspruch nehmen, als wenn ich sie einfach mit einer Hand erledigen würde. Ich musste Geduld, Willensstärke und Nachsichtigkeit mir selbst gegenüber zeigen und stets hochkonzentriert und vorsichtig die Steuerung der Prothese etablieren. Doch ich wollte unbedingt, dass diese coole Hand mit all ihren Funktionen ein Teil von mir wird. So habe ich konsequent und überall im Alltag mit ihr geübt, wo es möglich war. Übung macht den Meister und das Gehirn ist durchaus in der Lage, umzulernen. Durch meinen Einsatz habe ich schnell Fortschritte gemerkt: Die Steuerung funktioniert schneller und flüssiger, Erfolgserlebnisse nehmen zu, ich werde geschickter im Umgang mit der Prothese. Tassen zerschellen nicht mehr auf dem Boden, Flaschen werden nicht mehr mit voller Kraft zusammengedrückt und ich muss nicht mehr zusätzliche Zeit für Alltagsaktivitäten einplanen. Die Ansteuerung der Griffe funktioniert automatisch, das Griffschema hat sich eingeprägt. Mittlerweile ist die Prothese ein Teil von mir geworden, den ich nicht mehr missen möchte. Nun wäre ich aufgeschmissen, wenn ich das Leben nur noch mit einem Arm beschreiten würde. In so vielen Alltagssituationen hilft mir die Prothese: Beim Schuhe Zubinden, beim Verpackungen Öffnen oder aber beim Öffnen meiner Wohnungstür, diese muss man nämlich mit einer Hand heranziehen, während man den Schlüssel im Schloss dreht. Ich habe die Vincent-Hand mit all ihren Vorteilen zu schätzen gelernt. Präzision und Feinmotorik der Hand sind unglaublich, mit dem Pinzettengriff kann ich sogar die kleinen Laschen von Joghurtbechern greifen und aufreißen. Anhand von Vibrationsfeedback beim Zugreifen konnte ich außerdem mit der Zeit eine Art Tastsinn etablieren. Ich kann mittlerweile genau einschätzen, wie fest ich mit der Hand zugreife und wann die aufgewendete Kraft ausreichend ist und wann nicht. Meine bionische Handprothese hat mir Selbstständigkeit, Akzeptanz und Normalität zurückgegeben und auch ein Gefühl von Vollständigkeit. Sie ist mir kein Fremdkörper mehr, die Prothese ist jetzt mein Arm.

Comprehensive overview of all products: hand, children's hand, and finger prostheses, as well as our exoskeleton and accessories. Our products neo1 Exoskeleton VINCENTvr Training system VINCENTevolution5 VINCENTyoung3+ VINCENTpartial4 VINCENTpartial passive VINCENTpower flex USB-C VINCENTwrist VINCENTwork Accessories Software Cosmetic gloves

Wir überarbeiten unsere Neo1-Kurse. Hier exklusiv anmelden, um über den Start des neuen Zertifizierungskurses informiert zu werden. We are currently revising our neo1 certification course. NEW COURSE COMING SOON! be informed Current information regarding the neo1 certification course Thank you for your interest in certification for the neo1 exoskeleton from Vincent Systems. We currently do not offer certification courses for the neo1 exoskeleton, as we are revising our course concepts to offer you even more practical and efficient training in the future. As soon as a new course is available, you can register for it as usual via our website. Would you like to be informed exclusively by us when a new course is available? Then sign up using the form below and be the first to receive the latest updates. Voranmeldungsformular Stay informed! Sign up and be the first to know when a new certification course is available. First Name Last Name E-Mail Medical supply store / Company Phone number Message (optional) * I agree that my data may be stored, evaluated, and used for specific purposes in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. For further information, please read our Datenschutzerklärung Register Thank you for your registration! We will inform you as soon as a new training course is available. Further questions? For further questions and support, please contact: Email: service@vincentsystems.de Telephone: +49 721 480 714 0

Information on the implementation of the EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR / EU 2017/745) at Vincent Systems – manufacturer information & certificates. MDR (Medical Device Regulation) Declarations of conformity according to MDR Since May 26, 2021, the new EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR) (EU 2017/745) is mandatory for medical device manufacturers. This replaces the Medical Device Directive (MDD) (93/42/EEC) which was valid until then. All declarations of conformity of our medical devices have been updated by the introduction of the MDR, according to its requirements. The declarations of conformity are available to you, as our certified customer, for download in the customer online portal. EUDAMED EUDAMED is the European database for medical devices. It serves the central administration of medical devices in the EU and is based on a resolution of the EU Commission (2010/227/EU) from the year 2010. Through the MDR (Medical Device Regulation (EU 2017/745)), we as manufacturers are obligated to provide informations about us and our products in the database. In EUDAMED we are registered under the following Single Registration Number (SRN): DE-MF-000016437

All available grip options for the myoelectric hand prosthesis at a glance. Versatile, practical grip options for everyday use. Grips VINCENTevolution5 / 4

1999 - Fluidhand 2 Up The new planar technology for manufacturing fluidic drives and kinematics was therefore ideally suited for actively moving miniature catheters and endoscopes. However, the forces achievable with planar film drives, which operate at a working pressure of 0.5-1 bar, were too low for the construction of an artificial hand. To generate higher grasping forces, a correspondingly higher working pressure had to act in the fluidic drives. For Fluidhand 2, “artificial muscles” based on thin silicone hoses were therefore used, which were sheathed with a flexurally flexible, stretch-resistant fabric made of polyamide. The tubes of the Fluidhand 2 were unfolded in the finger joints. When subjected to an overpressure of up to 4 bar, the joints expanded unilaterally and realized a curvature in the opposite joint direction. Each finger of the hand has two pneumatic muscles, the thumb has three, the wrist has four. The extension is done by a rubber band. The joint and support structure in the fingers, thumb and hand, was made of fiber-reinforced composite material. The artificial hand scored with its consistently soft and compliant structure, very fast movements and pronounced adaptability when grasping. The grasping forces achieved were around 2.5 N per finger. Objects heavier than 500 g could not yet be grasped with this hand. As in Fluidhand 1, the hand was driven by compressed air, which meant that a powerful compressor was required to operate the hand. Up

Vincent Systems GmbH from Karlsruhe: Specialist in myoelectric hand prostheses and exoskeletons, active since 2009, internationally oriented. Vincent Systems is a young, dynamic, internationally oriented company from Karlsruhe with customers in Europe, Asia and North America. Vincent Systems GmbH was founded in May 2009 by CEO Dr Stefan Schulz.

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2003 - Fluidhand 6 Up The Fluidhand 6 is a particularly compact version of the hydraulic hand prosthesis, reduced to the essentials. The index, middle and ring fingers are each moved in the base joint via a flexible bellows drive, the little finger is mechanically coupled to the ring finger, and the middle finger is hydraulically coupled to the ring finger. The thumb is actuated in the basic joint. In this way, the thumb and index finger can be moved separately, while the other fingers move together. The 4 drives are controlled by a 3 valve bank, the miniature pump sucks distilled water from a pressure storage tank to pump it into the drive chambers. The weight of the hand is about 350 g. The aluminum fingers were covered with a PU foam. In the basic joints, all long fingers have an elastically mounted abduction. At this stage of development, experiments were carried out with different variants of the fluid hand, with the number of joints and drives as well as the required valves being varied considerably. The aim was to find an optimum between size, anatomical design and weight on the one hand and functionality on the other. Extremely reduced versions with only 4 drives and three valves, such as the Fluidhand 6, were built, which could be designed in this way to be very small, light and anatomical. This version of the Fluidhand is a particularly interesting candidate for a robust prosthesis suitable for everyday use, since the smallest number of hydraulic components was installed here. The systems are very light throughout, but also very complex in terms of the physical effects that occur, such as cavitation or the problem of changing material parameters, especially the elastic drives and connecting hoses in the course of operation, as well as wear and corrosion on the valves and the pump. Up

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2002 - Fluidhand 5 Up The Fluidhand 5 was designed with the aim of integrating all system components of miniature hydraulics into the metacarpals in order to make the hand compatible with established socket systems. The prosthesis can be connected to all standard prosthetic sockets via a quicksnap wrist. Both the myoelectric sensors and the energy storage of the socket are used. The pump, fluid tank, valve bank and controller are located in and on the metacarpus. With the reduction in tank size, the number of fluidic drive was reduced to 8. The ring finger and little finger are flexed over one drive each. In the weight-optimized frame in sandwich construction, the elastic finger abduction was integrated. Five valves control the 8 drives of the hand, with the ring, little and middle fingers being hydraulically connected to each other. Each of the 8 bellows-like drives is covered with a fabric that ensures the dimensional stability of the elastic inner chambers when a fluid is pumped into the cavity at a pressure of up to 6bar. The central chambers are fixed at the joint pivot point by loadable cords, thus the expansion of the bellows is redirected into a 90 degree rotational movement of the finger joint. The resetting of a joint is achieved by negative pressure in the bellows drive when the drive chambers are emptied; an elastic band supports the stretching of the joints. For storing the drive medium, usually water, Fluidhand 5 experimented with both foil membrane tanks and pressure storage tanks consisting of an elastic hose tank and a stable housing. Up

2006 - Fluidhand 9 Up The Fluidhand 9 has 5 drives of different sizes. The base joints of the index finger and middle finger are equipped with stronger drives. The elastic fluid tank is located in the wrist. When the fingers are emptied, they are stretched and the fluid is pumped from the finger joints into the elastic tank in the wrist, bending the wrist and opening the hand further. The pump is noise-isolated and free-swinging in a CFRP tank; valves and controls are located in the metacarpus, which is completely covered with CFRP. The thumb with a drive in the base pivots between flat hand and opposition position to the three-point grip. For reasons of optimizing speed and tank size, separate drives for the ring and little fingers were omitted, but these two long fingers are actively moved by coupling with the base joint of the middle finger. The control valve for the thumb drive is located in the distal thumb phalanx. The wrist with a 4-pole coaxial insert is compatible with all stem systems, control is via two EMG sensors, and it is possible to switch between several grip types by means of short switching signals. This last version of the Fluidhand for the time being also features a Bluetooth interface for mobile devices as well as a vibrotactile sense of touch. The Fluidhand 8 is currently the last further development of the multi-articulating hydraulic hand based on flexible fluid actuators. The aim of this hand version was to provide a pre-product ready for series production for a hand prosthesis commercially available on the fitting component market and to convince potentially interested parties of the development for marketing. The bionic hand prosthesis, which is already suitable for everyday use, was manufactured and tested in a small series. It is thus the first bionic multi-articulating hand prosthesis and also the first hydraulic hand prosthesis.